Success at the 2017 PROSE Awards

Cambridge University Press has recorded another successful year at the PROSE awards, winning in seven categories and receiving a further eleven honorable mentions.

In all, books published by Cambridge accounted for seven categories including Computing & Information Sciences, Multivolume reference/ Humanities and Social Sciences, Best Textbook in Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Music & the Performing Arts, and Journal/Best New Humanities & Social Sciences. Honorable Mentions were achieved in almost all categories, including Chemistry & Physics, Classics and Literature. The Journal of the American Philosophical Association also won the award for Journal/Best New Humanities & Social Sciences.

The PROSE awards are given out by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Winning books published by Cambridge University Press include:

Award for Excellence in Reference Works

Winner:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

Art History & Criticism

Honorable Mention:

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise

Chemistry & Physics

Honorable Mention:

The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere

Shakespeare's Literary Lives: The Author as Character in Fiction and Film

Mathematics

Winner:

Mathematical Foundations of Infinite-Dimensional Statistical Models

Honorable Mention:

Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis

Multivolume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences

Winner:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

Music & the Performing Arts

Winner:

Mozart's Music of Friends: Social Interplay in the Chamber Works

Psychology

Honorable Mention:

Does your Family Make You Smarter? Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy

Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences

Honorable Mention:

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

Textbook/Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Winner:

Network Science

Honorable Mention:

Quantitative Biomedical Optics: Theory, Methods, and Application

Textbook/Best in Social Sciences

Honorable Mention:

Cognition: A Neuroscience Approach

The PROSE Awards, which this year celebrate 41 years, annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in 54 categories.

Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are unique in their breadth and depth.